Help:Deletions
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- Read the overview of this process below. If you're still not sure what to do, ask at The Lounge.
- Provide a clear deletion reason according to policies, and a criterion from the table.
- If it is an attack page, a copyright violation, or blatant spam, blank the article or draft.
- Click the Request a deletion deletion button.
- Remember to sign your post by adding four tildes (
~~~~) at the end of your post. - This is not a community discussion. Comments are invited only from the creator and/or major contributors to the article.
- Administrators will decide the outcome of either 'keep', 'delete', 'merge' or 'redirect' and may provide a more detailed explanation at their discretion.
Creators of pages and media files should be warned of a deletion nomination (or of the deletion if not informed before). All deletion templates (using criteria other than U1, G5, G6, G7, and G8) thus contain in their body a pre-formatted, suggested warning template to notify the relevant party or parties of the nomination for deletion under the criterion used. You can copy and paste such warnings to the talk pages of the creators and major contributors, choose from others listed at Category:CSD warning templates, or place the unified warning template, {{subst:CSD-warn|csd|Page name}}, which allows you to tailor your warning under any particular criterion by replacing csd with the associated criterion abbreviation (e.g. g4, a7).
Why is a page deleted?
There are several reasons why articles, drafts, and other pages can be deleted.
In most cases articles and drafts are deleted because they are either insufficiently sourced, are the subject of Conflict of Interest, or are promotional or are totally unsuitable as topics for inclusion in an encyclopedia.
Drafts with potential that have been improved can be submitted for review a total of three times, after which if they have not been improved to Justapedia inclusion standard within 3 months, they will be automatically deleted.
Articles and drafts are deleted on recommendation by members of the Editorial Review Board (ERB) or any editor in good standing who comes across an article that does not comply with Justapedia's policies for inclusion. The recommendation is reviewed by the Admins who make their decision to keep or delete the page. When the page has been deleted, the deletion is recorded in in the log with the reason for deletion.
Reasons for deletion
- Content that meets at least one of the criteria for deletion
- Copyright violations and other material violating Justapedia's non-free content criteria
- Vandalism, including inflammatory redirects, pages that exist only to disparage their subject, patent nonsense, or gibberish
- Advertising or other spam without any relevant or encyclopedic content
- Content that has been created for pay or reward
- Content forks (unless a merger or redirect is appropriate)
- Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions, and hoaxes
- Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed
- Articles whose subjects fail to meet the relevant notability guideline (JP:N, JP:GNG, JP:BIO, JP:MUSIC, JP:CORP, and so forth)
- Articles that breach Justapedia's policy on biographies of living persons
- Redundant or otherwise useless templates
- Categories representing overcategorization
- Files that are unused, obsolete, or violate the non-free policy
- Any other use of the article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace
- Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia
Deletion criteria used in Twinkle
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For full descriptions of the criteria, see the policy at Criteria for deletion.
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Appeals
Deletion requests will be archived after 7 days. The administrators' decisions are taken after careful consideration and are generally final. If it is thought however that a deleted article is possibly relevant for inclusion in the encyclopedia and has potential if expanded and correctly sourced, an appeal can be made.
Appeals can only be made by the creator of the draft or a major contributing editor to the article. To make an appeal, add your reason to the deletion request entry below. Archived entries can no longer be repealed. The appeal will be deliberated by administrators and in some cases also by trustees. Results are generally posted within 7 days. The administrators' decisions are final.
Any experienced editor in good standing can create an entirely new article draft under the original title. When a user visits a Justapedia page that used to exist, but has been deleted, the name of the page will be displayed, followed by a warning that says "If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below."
Template:WikiPROJECT LGBT Studies
G6 {{WikiPROJECT LGBT Studies}} is a redirect to nowhere, a holdover from the mass-import from wped. No need until we have members of said wikiproject. Square Peg (talk) 21:38, 21 September 2024 (AST)
- Square Peg, The redirect has been deleted, thank you — Shahadat (talk) 17:03, 2 October 2024 (AST)
Bible story
Per A10, Bible story is amateurish writing and poor sourcing. On Wikipedia this was a redirect to Bible, which ought to be restored. Square Peg (talk) 19:00, 4 October 2024 (AST)